Paul Dzenitis KCD 1985

Mr. Dzenitis is one of two Bearcat wrestlers to compete in the finals of an individual Kentucky state championship. He was most successful at the 185 lb. weight class division as a two-time regional champion. During his 1985 senior season, Mr. Dzenitis won the state 185 lb. runner-up title. His wrestling career led to sixty-four individual match victories. His very successful 1985 senior season included thirty victories, eighteen pins, fifty-one takedowns, and six reversals with only one defeat. Mr. Dzenitis was awarded the Thomas G. Monaco Wrestling Award, the top KCD wrestling award, for three consecutive seasons from 1983 to 1985. Additionally, Mr. Dzenitis was a force on the KCD campus as a member of the football team. He served as the team’s leading tackler with ninety-three stops during an undefeated season that allowed only sixty points. Mr. Deznitis has also been awarded the KCD Robertson Football Award and Beam Senior Athlete of the Year Award. He continued his wrestling career in college, competing for the Princeton University Tigers and making second team All-Ivy League and placing in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships. He participated as a workout member in the Pan American games. Today, he is married and lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where he works as an attorney.

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